Betty Bradley

Betty Bradley is a fixture of the Bradley family universe that Peter Bagge built for Fantagraphics, debuting in 1982 during the Bronze Age and going on to share pages with the likes of Buddy, Babs, Butch, and Brad Bradley across two full decades of underground-inflected alt-comics glory. Her 21 appearances span some of the most celebrated titles in Fantagraphics' catalog — Hate, Neat Stuff, and Hate Annual — series that defined a generation of readers who wanted their comics loud, messy, and bracingly real. With a key issue to her name and a run stretching all the way to 2002, Betty is part of the sprawling, gloriously dysfunctional world that made Bagge a cornerstone of alternative comics — and she's well worth tracking down for any serious collector of the era.